A well worn GP40-2 idles the night away at Penn Mary while steam from the National Gypsum plant creates an interesting backdrop.
NYC 1210 and 1213 sit outside the Monongahela shops. In back of 1210 is survivor 1205.
HRRC 3600 rolls north LHF for Pittsfield passing a frozen over portion of the Housatonic River. Heavy snow still clings to many of the trees in the Berkshires from a storm the previous day.
One of a handful of the original full-carbody Alco-GE turbines still on the roster in March, 1964, GTEL 58 waits at the east end of the Cheyenne yards to take an extra to North Platte. In its rest... (more)
A variation of a theme inspired by O'Winston Link, Pere Marquette #1225 gets her rods lubricated at the Steam Railroading Institute shops prior to a weekend of excursions through Southern Michigan... (more)
Houston, we have a problem. Looks like KCS MOW are not having a fun Sunday at the construction zone. The roll over vehicle is resting on part of the backhoe which looks like it stopped it f... (more)
What a mess, no one was hurt and nothing leaked.
After a quick pit stop in the Lawrence yard the Pan Am OCS deadhead move to Boston gets underway.
A former Seaboard caboose (complete with horn) creeps over the Route 2 crossing enroute to the chemical plant just out of the frame while a security guard from the plant gets out of his suburban t... (more)
A southbound train on the Oregon Trunk line is seen entering Bend
The day I've been waiting for! A stunning sky, roaring river and a Warbonnet sandwich. Sunset falls rarely looks better. ... (more)
A Big Four train crosses the Pennsy.
Vermont Rail System's GMRC GP9R 804 and VTR GP40-2 307 are dragging empty gondolas into the 5% climb at Barre, Vermont, to the Northeast Materials Group loadout at Websterville. From this point t... (more)
Many old switchers wait in line to be rebuilt or scrapped at Larry's Truck and Electric.
CEFX 2019 - RLK 1755 arriving light power from Hagersville. Of interest, that is legendary singer / songwriter Joni Mitchell's daugter (left) and granddaughter (right)
Recently rebuilt and repainted at CEECO, #98 is awaiting #90, before being sent north. This is part of CEECO's swan song, as the facility will be closing later this year. Sad, very sad, more tha... (more)
"USWX 400 at the Maspeth Industrial Center" Waste Management's Mother/Slug combo leads New York & Atlantic Railway's RS-90 through the Maspeth Industrial Center at Flushing Ave on the Bush... (more)
a CSX SD50 cab sits on display in the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Museum. A spotlight was used to light up the cab interior.
On February 18, 1970, an eastbound Santa Fe freight struck the caboose of a Union Pacific local at a crossing in Fullerton, California. The UP conductor was fatally injured. The UP caboose was cut... (more)
Vermont Rail System’s “Little WACRâ€, the Washington County Railroad affiliate Montpelier & Barre Subdivision (M&B Sub for short) re-launched granite-hauling service from the Rock of Ages Qua... (more)
The WC 1569 side swiped a departing train.
CNW train #576, with 5 loads and 46 empties (left) readies for departure to Proviso from South Janesville yard on a Sunday afternoon. It is viewed from atop a loaded autorack of 1970 Camaros. It... (more)
Its a beautiful September day in Chicago as the daily Glenn - Kirk L536 transfer is seen hitting the Rock Island diamonds at 16th Street where the Freeport Sub changes over to the Chicago Sub.
The sun is setting, the glint is fading and it's time to call it a day! 15F 3016 catches the last light from the setting sun near Vailima.
Do you need a "foul line" in your driveway? Photograher's notes: This is Iowa Interstate (former Rock Island) trackage heading directly into the TZPR North Limit Yard. Due to a number of circum... (more)
The Last Time. The last crew to make up the popular Reno Fun Train takes a moment on a fittingly, gloomy morning in Sparks, Nevada to pose for a group photo in front of the train's l... (more)
Three sets of Northern Pacific passenger F-units await their next train at the King Street Station.
While the city of Aiken and their local shortline sleep, mother nature's fury is out in full force.
Rails to oblivion- Conrail freight GG-1s awaiting final disposition by the old Reading RR coal dock. The 4828 was built by Baldwin/PRR/Westinghouse in June, 1935. For an excellent photo of the o... (more)
N&W Y6a 2157 pushes a coal drag headed by five EMD GP9 units. This was my final shot of Norfolk and Western steam in regular service.
Sunday morning around 10:30am, a westbound coal load headed for Amarillo, TX derailed on BNSF's Brush Subdivision on the west side of Hudson, CO, about 30 miles northeast of Denver. Here, crews ar... (more)
The Rio Grande Ski Train of March 2, 2002, has some “heritage†leading as it approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado. Union Pacific EMD GP60 No. 1900, the former Rio Grande No. 3154, t... (more)
The cab of Amtrak Veteran's Unit #42 is as impeccable as the exterior. The crews at Beech Grove did an excellent job of painting this locomotive inside and out. In an initiative tied to this spe... (more)
CN power off of NS 184 later to be used on NS 353, is currently seen here testing out some Switches.
UP 1111, the "Powered By Our People" locomotive, leads a nine car officer special as it races across the grass land of Bushnell, NE; near the Nebraska- Wyoming state line. While traffic ... (more)
Amtrak's 40th Anniversary exhibit train crosses Lake Pontchartrain on its deadhead from New Orleans to Meridian for display.
It's still awfully quiet on the outskirts of downtown Raleigh before 7am. Quiet, that is, except for the punctual double-shot on the horn and the whine of the locomotive smoothly accelerating it's... (more)
The belch that made Montreal famous! Or was that Schenectady? Expanding its carbon footprint, a BCRail northward freight gets underway at the north end of Squamish yard after some minor switchin... (more)
Newly painted Norfolk Southern SD60E engine 6522 sits on track 25 at Juniata Locomotive Shops (JBS). With two former CONRAIL QUALITY SD80MAC'S in the background.
Montana Rail Link F45 No. 391, on the point of MRL’s LM freight, glints off the still waters of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. The train h... (more)
In 1942 Rock Island had EMD built two special E-6Bs with a blunt nose cab and baggage compartment exclusively to power the Colorado Springs section of the Rocky Mountain Rocket. After cutting Colo... (more)
A boat tour of the Duluth-Superior harbor includes a cruise past the former DM&IR Dock 6, now operated by Canadian National Railway. This is the end of the line for much of the iron ore handled fr... (more)
Due to weekend trackwork no Amtrak trains are running through San Diego's Santa Fe station, leaving interesting photo ops with several trainsets waiting for Monday. Photo from the series ... (more)
Boo-boo derailments were frequent in Milwaukee’s final years as evidenced here at the east end of Avery, Idaho yard when MILW 21 left town behind four SD-40-2s on July 19. 1978. A few years ear... (more)
With literally hundreds of people scattered about Nicholson the CPR Holiday Train makes a five minute stop atop the viaduct.
This kind of looks like my first train set!
On what was billed for a Cummins PR photo shoot, Indiana Rail Road train SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis to Hiawatha Yard) is crossing the Shuffle Creek Trestle in Unionville, IN with the Cummi... (more)
Orient Bay was without a doubt the most scenic strech on the CN Kinghorn Sub, but as shown here; it see's its last sets of steel wheels rolling over the rails as the "Kinghorn Killer" threads more... (more)
The slug is E-L B-65. It was homemade from a Baldwin at Hornell, N.Y. in 1965. Another one of those "all gone" scenes.
In a rare unobstructed view of the former CN F7A, RPCX 9177 sits in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard on an absolutely frigid night in Staunton, VA. This locomotive was originally acquired to be... (more)
The sun has popped out for a short moment before sunset to created a nice rainbow. Serve weather has broken out late this afternoon in Nebraska due to hot and humid weather. This coal load is wait... (more)
Santa Fe, UPS and a crane company team up to get damaged UPS trailers stuffed with packages off the ground after a 991 train derailed several loads. Reported cause was a rail that simply turned on... (more)
Tacoma Rail's Hill job is on it's way to Fredrickson. This trip the crew has 14,600 horsepower to lug the 15 cars up the 3.65% grade that awaits them once they leave Sound Transits Lakewood Sub.... (more)
After the derailment of Boeing 737 fuselages into the Clark Fork River, the Boeing train became the hottest train on the railroad. Here is one of those "Hot" moves crossing Greenhorn Vi... (more)
Adding to the plethora of Big Boy images already submitted... In what seems to be an almost fake scene with blue skies and emptiness all around, I decided to add my own twist from a lower perspect... (more)
After making a brief servicing stop in St. Cloud, X4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) accelerates with the American Freedom Train southbound on the Burlington Northern as it passes by the Minnesota Sta... (more)
Southbound freight is heading toward New York and the barge docks at Bay Ridge. The New Haven E-33s already have a history. They were built for Virginian and became property of 3 other railroads. ... (more)
Radio Equipped
Flood waters have consumed the low lying Arkansas side of the Mississippi River as BNSF 5402 & 8974 cross over on the Frisco Bridge in the center of this trio of bridges leading into Memphis. On t... (more)
A Canadian National stack train treads through Black Canyon of the Thompson River west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on a hot June 25, 2006. In the far distance on the other side of the river is ... (more)
Truck and tank car used to fill propane at sidings blowers
Stranger in a strange land: An MRL Officer Car Special cruises along Puget Sound at Carkeek Park near Blue Ridge, WA, running from New Westminster, BC to Missoula, MT via Seattle and Stampe... (more)
Street Sweeping With A Pair Of F9's. A year ago today SC&MB’s SC 1101 led as the traction motor blowers on both F-units swept up the dust on the street creating a dust storm along Walker Stre... (more)
Well it has been a cake walk so far for the Jordan Spreader on the Bayard. Now it is time to dig in and plow thru a few decent snow drifts. Here the plow is working hard to push thru the drifts at... (more)
A worker looks over the 8 cars that are derailed on one of the hump lead in Buckeye Yard, 5 cars are visible, 3 more are derailed under the bridge I am standing on. The main hump track, as well a... (more)
A pair of CEFX AC44s switch the LS&I dock in Marquette during some heavy fog. A rare “fog bow†just so happened to appear in the perfect spot!
Doubleheader at sunset heads east over the pass.
Overview of whole yard and shops. One complete railroad in front of you.
Erie-built FM's, PRR class FF20 in the service rack at Columbus mated in A-B-A configuration
The now idled Hogg Loadout on The CSX Whitesburg Branch at Roxana has seen better days. This loader is now owned by Kingdom Coal and hasn't loaded a train in over a year. The cars on the other tra... (more)
9 of the 10 brand new EMD SD70ACe-T4 locomotives being delivered to CSX trail the power for Q541 as they slowly pull foward to drop off 65 cars for Wyvern Yard. To say they stuck out like a sore t... (more)
It's called Big Sky Country for a reason! It looks to be the start of a beautiful summer day on MRL's 4th Subdivision as a westbound Roberts Bank-bound unit coal train cruises through the S-curves... (more)
For an NJ Boy, who had only read of this place in Extra 2200 South, the first moment I saw all the ALCOs at the Bull Ring, I was in utter awe. This was the first squeeze of my shutter, feature sho... (more)
NP North Coast Limited westbound at Livingston, MT.
A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.
Clinchfield 800 leads the Heritage Highball from New Haven, KY to Ravenna, KY across the trestle at Howard Creek.
Union Pacific's legendary big boy gleams in the morning light as it rolls onto home territory at Ogden, UT.
CSX B727 heads from Middleboro to Taunton after a nor'easter dumping snow in New England.
A reminder of the old Moffat Road, Rio Grande Train 9, the Yampa Valley, climbs through the curve at Coal Creek on its way from Denver to Craig in far northwestern Colorado. On the last day of Jan... (more)
A couple of scrapped CSX locomotives sit outside of the Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway locomotive shops.
Three B30-7As - one if yellow with UP lettering - bring a southbound freight past the dormitory cars and other m of w equipment during a major redo of the UP's ex-MP line through Independence.
3-cylinder Pacific 'Duke of Gloucester' drifts over Berwick's famous viaduct into the Berwick water stop, bound for Edinburgh on day 1 of the 5 day 'North Briton' steam land cruise. This structure... (more)
Heavy sea 8 in north Atlantic, i am sorry , i make a mistake. Heavy sea at the port of Egio city. A dmu unit on the way to Patras crossing carefully the point.
Just after clearing the draw bridge which gives CP-Draw its namesake, Q004 picked the switch which divides the NS Bison Runner from CSX's 2 Main.
One of the last BL2 diesels in active service
A No.7 eastbound express arrives at Junction Boulevard at 6:08 PM. It's doing it's due diligence in delivering commuters back home after a day of work and a day's pay. The sun gives everyone a glo... (more)
With all the debris removed from the front of the lead unit we are allowed a good view of the damage caused. You can clearly see the imprint of the semi's trailer (horizontal lines) on the nose, ... (more)
